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<h1>The Life of Henry the Fifth</h1>

<section id="dramatis-personae"><h2>Dramatis Personae</h2>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>KING HENRY, the Fifth. </li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="brothers to the King.">
  <li>DUKE OF GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li>DUKE OF BEDFORD</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King. </li>
  <li>DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King. </li>
  <li>EARL OF SALISBURY</li>
  <li>EARL OF WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>EARL OF WARWICK</li>
  <li>BISHOP OF CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>BISHOP OF ELY</li>
  <li>EARL OF CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li>LORD SCROOP</li>
  <li>SIR THOMAS GREY</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="Officers in King Henry's army.">
  <li>SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>GOWER</li>
  <li>FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>MACMORRIS</li>
  <li>JAMY</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="soldiers in the same.">
  <li>BATES</li>
  <li>COURT</li>
  <li>WILLIAMS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>PISTOL</li>
  <li>NYM</li>
  <li>BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Boy</li>
  <li>A Herald.</li>
  <li>CHARLES the Sixth, King of France. </li>
  <li>LEWIS, the Dauphin. </li>
  <li>DUKE OF BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>DUKE OF ORLEANS</li>
  <li>DUKE OF BOURBON</li>
  <li>The Constable of France. </li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="French Lords.">
  <li>RAMBURES</li>
  <li>GRANDPRE</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>GOVERNOR, of Harfleur.</li>
  <li>MONTJOY, a French Herald.</li>
  <li>Ambassadors to the King of England.</li>
  <li>ISABEL, Queen of France. </li>
  <li>KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel.</li>
  <li>ALICE, a lady attending on her.</li>
  <li>Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol.</li>
  <li>Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus.</li>
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<div id="scene-description">SCENE  England; afterwards France.</div>

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<h2>ACT I</h2>

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<h3>SCENE I.  London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,</li>
  <li>Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign</li>
  <li>Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,</li>
  <li>But that the scambling and unquiet time</li>
  <li class="number">Did push it out of farther question.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>It must be thought on. If it pass against us,</li>
  <li>We lose the better half of our possession:</li>
  <li>For all the temporal lands which men devout</li>
  <li class="number">By testament have given to the church</li>
  <li>Would they strip from us; being valued thus:</li>
  <li>As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,</li>
  <li>Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,</li>
  <li>Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;</li>
  <li class="number">And, to relief of lazars and weak age,</li>
  <li>Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.</li>
  <li>A hundred almshouses right well supplied;</li>
  <li>And to the coffers of the king beside,</li>
  <li>A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li class="number">This would drink deep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>'Twould drink the cup and all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>But what prevention?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>The king is full of grace and fair regard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>And a true lover of the holy church.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li class="number">The courses of his youth promised it not.</li>
  <li>The breath no sooner left his father's body,</li>
  <li>But that his wildness, mortified in him,</li>
  <li>Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment</li>
  <li>Consideration, like an angel, came</li>
  <li class="number">And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,</li>
  <li>Leaving his body as a paradise,</li>
  <li>To envelop and contain celestial spirits.</li>
  <li>Never was such a sudden scholar made;</li>
  <li>Never came reformation in a flood,</li>
  <li class="number">With such a heady currance, scouring faults</li>
  <li>Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness</li>
  <li>So soon did lose his seat and all at once</li>
  <li>As in this king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>We are blessed in the change.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li class="number">Hear him but reason in divinity,</li>
  <li>And all-admiring with an inward wish</li>
  <li>You would desire the king were made a prelate:</li>
  <li>Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,</li>
  <li>You would say it hath been all in all his study:</li>
  <li class="number">List his discourse of war, and you shall hear</li>
  <li>A fearful battle render'd you in music:</li>
  <li>Turn him to any cause of policy,</li>
  <li>The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,</li>
  <li>Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,</li>
  <li class="number">The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,</li>
  <li>And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,</li>
  <li>To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;</li>
  <li>So that the art and practic part of life</li>
  <li>Must be the mistress to this theoric:</li>
  <li class="number">Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,</li>
  <li>Since his addiction was to courses vain,</li>
  <li>His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,</li>
  <li>His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,</li>
  <li>And never noted in him any study,</li>
  <li class="number">Any retirement, any sequestration</li>
  <li>From open haunts and popularity.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>The strawberry grows underneath the nettle</li>
  <li>And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best</li>
  <li>Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:</li>
  <li class="number">And so the prince obscured his contemplation</li>
  <li>Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,</li>
  <li>Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,</li>
  <li>Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>It must be so; for miracles are ceased;</li>
  <li class="number">And therefore we must needs admit the means</li>
  <li>How things are perfected.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>But, my good lord,</li>
  <li>How now for mitigation of this bill</li>
  <li>Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty</li>
  <li class="number">Incline to it, or no?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>He seems indifferent,</li>
  <li>Or rather swaying more upon our part</li>
  <li>Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;</li>
  <li>For I have made an offer to his majesty,</li>
  <li class="number">Upon our spiritual convocation</li>
  <li>And in regard of causes now in hand,</li>
  <li>Which I have open'd to his grace at large,</li>
  <li>As touching France, to give a greater sum</li>
  <li>Than ever at one time the clergy yet</li>
  <li class="number">Did to his predecessors part withal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>How did this offer seem received, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>With good acceptance of his majesty;</li>
  <li>Save that there was not time enough to hear,</li>
  <li>As I perceived his grace would fain have done,</li>
  <li class="number">The severals and unhidden passages</li>
  <li>Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms</li>
  <li>And generally to the crown and seat of France</li>
  <li>Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>What was the impediment that broke this off?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li class="number">The French ambassador upon that instant</li>
  <li>Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come</li>
  <li>To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>It is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>Then go we in, to know his embassy;</li>
  <li class="number">Which I could with a ready guess declare,</li>
  <li>Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The same. The Presence chamber.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Not here in presence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Send for him, good uncle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,</li>
  <li>Before we hear him, of some things of weight</li>
  <li>That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>God and his angels guard your sacred throne</li>
  <li>And make you long become it!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Sure, we thank you.</li>
  <li>My learned lord, we pray you to proceed</li>
  <li>And justly and religiously unfold</li>
  <li>Why the law Salique that they have in France</li>
  <li>Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:</li>
  <li class="number">And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,</li>
  <li>That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,</li>
  <li>Or nicely charge your understanding soul</li>
  <li>With opening titles miscreate, whose right</li>
  <li>Suits not in native colours with the truth;</li>
  <li class="number">For God doth know how many now in health</li>
  <li>Shall drop their blood in approbation</li>
  <li>Of what your reverence shall incite us to.</li>
  <li>Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,</li>
  <li>How you awake our sleeping sword of war:</li>
  <li class="number">We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;</li>
  <li>For never two such kingdoms did contend</li>
  <li>Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops</li>
  <li>Are every one a woe, a sore complaint</li>
  <li>'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords</li>
  <li class="number">That make such waste in brief mortality.</li>
  <li>Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;</li>
  <li>For we will hear, note and believe in heart</li>
  <li>That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd</li>
  <li>As pure as sin with baptism.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li class="number">Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,</li>
  <li>That owe yourselves, your lives and services</li>
  <li>To this imperial throne. There is no bar</li>
  <li>To make against your highness' claim to France</li>
  <li>But this, which they produce from Pharamond,</li>
  <li class="number">'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'</li>
  <li>'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'</li>
  <li>Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze</li>
  <li>To be the realm of France, and Pharamond</li>
  <li>The founder of this law and female bar.</li>
  <li class="number">Yet their own authors faithfully affirm</li>
  <li>That the land Salique is in Germany,</li>
  <li>Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;</li>
  <li>Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,</li>
  <li>There left behind and settled certain French;</li>
  <li class="number">Who, holding in disdain the German women</li>
  <li>For some dishonest manners of their life,</li>
  <li>Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female</li>
  <li>Should be inheritrix in Salique land:</li>
  <li>Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,</li>
  <li class="number">Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.</li>
  <li>Then doth it well appear that Salique law</li>
  <li>Was not devised for the realm of France:</li>
  <li>Nor did the French possess the Salique land</li>
  <li>Until four hundred one and twenty years</li>
  <li class="number">After defunction of King Pharamond,</li>
  <li>Idly supposed the founder of this law;</li>
  <li>Who died within the year of our redemption</li>
  <li>Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great</li>
  <li>Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French</li>
  <li class="number">Beyond the river Sala, in the year</li>
  <li>Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,</li>
  <li>King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,</li>
  <li>Did, as heir general, being descended</li>
  <li>Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,</li>
  <li class="number">Make claim and title to the crown of France.</li>
  <li>Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown</li>
  <li>Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male</li>
  <li>Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,</li>
  <li>To find his title with some shows of truth,</li>
  <li class="number">'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,</li>
  <li>Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,</li>
  <li>Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son</li>
  <li>To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son</li>
  <li>Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,</li>
  <li class="number">Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,</li>
  <li>Could not keep quiet in his conscience,</li>
  <li>Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied</li>
  <li>That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,</li>
  <li>Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,</li>
  <li class="number">Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:</li>
  <li>By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great</li>
  <li>Was re-united to the crown of France.</li>
  <li>So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.</li>
  <li>King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,</li>
  <li class="number">King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear</li>
  <li>To hold in right and title of the female:</li>
  <li>So do the kings of France unto this day;</li>
  <li>Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law</li>
  <li>To bar your highness claiming from the female,</li>
  <li class="number">And rather choose to hide them in a net</li>
  <li>Than amply to imbar their crooked titles</li>
  <li>Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>May I with right and conscience make this claim?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!</li>
  <li class="number">For in the book of Numbers is it writ,</li>
  <li>When the man dies, let the inheritance</li>
  <li>Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,</li>
  <li>Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;</li>
  <li>Look back into your mighty ancestors:</li>
  <li class="number">Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,</li>
  <li>From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,</li>
  <li>And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,</li>
  <li>Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,</li>
  <li>Making defeat on the full power of France,</li>
  <li class="number">Whiles his most mighty father on a hill</li>
  <li>Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp</li>
  <li>Forage in blood of French nobility.</li>
  <li>O noble English. that could entertain</li>
  <li>With half their forces the full Pride of France</li>
  <li class="number">And let another half stand laughing by,</li>
  <li>All out of work and cold for action!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ELY</li>
  <li>Awake remembrance of these valiant dead</li>
  <li>And with your puissant arm renew their feats:</li>
  <li>You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;</li>
  <li class="number">The blood and courage that renowned them</li>
  <li>Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege</li>
  <li>Is in the very May-morn of his youth,</li>
  <li>Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth</li>
  <li class="number">Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,</li>
  <li>As did the former lions of your blood.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>They know your grace hath cause and means and might;</li>
  <li>So hath your highness; never king of England</li>
  <li>Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England</li>
  <li>And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,</li>
  <li>With blood and sword and fire to win your right;</li>
  <li>In aid whereof we of the spiritualty</li>
  <li class="number">Will raise your highness such a mighty sum</li>
  <li>As never did the clergy at one time</li>
  <li>Bring in to any of your ancestors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We must not only arm to invade the French,</li>
  <li>But lay down our proportions to defend</li>
  <li class="number">Against the Scot, who will make road upon us</li>
  <li>With all advantages.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>They of those marches, gracious sovereign,</li>
  <li>Shall be a wall sufficient to defend</li>
  <li>Our inland from the pilfering borderers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,</li>
  <li>But fear the main intendment of the Scot,</li>
  <li>Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;</li>
  <li>For you shall read that my great-grandfather</li>
  <li>Never went with his forces into France</li>
  <li class="number">But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom</li>
  <li>Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,</li>
  <li>With ample and brim fulness of his force,</li>
  <li>Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,</li>
  <li>Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;</li>
  <li class="number">That England, being empty of defence,</li>
  <li>Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;</li>
  <li>For hear her but exampled by herself:</li>
  <li>When all her chivalry hath been in France</li>
  <li class="number">And she a mourning widow of her nobles,</li>
  <li>She hath herself not only well defended</li>
  <li>But taken and impounded as a stray</li>
  <li>The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,</li>
  <li>To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings</li>
  <li class="number">And make her chronicle as rich with praise</li>
  <li>As is the ooze and bottom of the sea</li>
  <li>With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>But there's a saying very old and true,</li>
  <li>'If that you will France win,</li>
  <li class="number">Then with Scotland first begin:'</li>
  <li>For once the eagle England being in prey,</li>
  <li>To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot</li>
  <li>Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,</li>
  <li>Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,</li>
  <li class="number">To tear and havoc more than she can eat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>It follows then the cat must stay at home:</li>
  <li>Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,</li>
  <li>Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,</li>
  <li>And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.</li>
  <li class="number">While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,</li>
  <li>The advised head defends itself at home;</li>
  <li>For government, though high and low and lower,</li>
  <li>Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,</li>
  <li>Congreeing in a full and natural close,</li>
  <li class="number">Like music.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CANTERBURY</li>
  <li>Therefore doth heaven divide</li>
  <li>The state of man in divers functions,</li>
  <li>Setting endeavour in continual motion;</li>
  <li>To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,</li>
  <li class="number">Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,</li>
  <li>Creatures that by a rule in nature teach</li>
  <li>The act of order to a peopled kingdom.</li>
  <li>They have a king and officers of sorts;</li>
  <li>Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,</li>
  <li class="number">Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,</li>
  <li>Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,</li>
  <li>Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,</li>
  <li>Which pillage they with merry march bring home</li>
  <li>To the tent-royal of their emperor;</li>
  <li class="number">Who, busied in his majesty, surveys</li>
  <li>The singing masons building roofs of gold,</li>
  <li>The civil citizens kneading up the honey,</li>
  <li>The poor mechanic porters crowding in</li>
  <li>Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,</li>
  <li class="number">The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,</li>
  <li>Delivering o'er to executors pale</li>
  <li>The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,</li>
  <li>That many things, having full reference</li>
  <li>To one consent, may work contrariously:</li>
  <li class="number">As many arrows, loosed several ways,</li>
  <li>Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;</li>
  <li>As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;</li>
  <li>As many lines close in the dial's centre;</li>
  <li>So may a thousand actions, once afoot.</li>
  <li class="number">End in one purpose, and be all well borne</li>
  <li>Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.</li>
  <li>Divide your happy England into four;</li>
  <li>Whereof take you one quarter into France,</li>
  <li>And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.</li>
  <li class="number">If we, with thrice such powers left at home,</li>
  <li>Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,</li>
  <li>Let us be worried and our nation lose</li>
  <li>The name of hardiness and policy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt some Attendants</li>
  <li class="number">Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,</li>
  <li>And yours, the noble sinews of our power,</li>
  <li>France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,</li>
  <li>Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,</li>
  <li>Ruling in large and ample empery</li>
  <li class="number">O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,</li>
  <li>Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,</li>
  <li>Tombless, with no remembrance over them:</li>
  <li>Either our history shall with full mouth</li>
  <li>Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,</li>
  <li class="number">Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,</li>
  <li>Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Ambassadors of France</li>
  <li>Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure</li>
  <li>Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear</li>
  <li>Your greeting is from him, not from the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Ambassador</li>
  <li class="number">May't please your majesty to give us leave</li>
  <li>Freely to render what we have in charge;</li>
  <li>Or shall we sparingly show you far off</li>
  <li>The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;</li>
  <li class="number">Unto whose grace our passion is as subject</li>
  <li>As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:</li>
  <li>Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness</li>
  <li>Tell us the Dauphin's mind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Ambassador</li>
  <li>Thus, then, in few.</li>
  <li class="number">Your highness, lately sending into France,</li>
  <li>Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right</li>
  <li>Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.</li>
  <li>In answer of which claim, the prince our master</li>
  <li>Says that you savour too much of your youth,</li>
  <li class="number">And bids you be advised there's nought in France</li>
  <li>That can be with a nimble galliard won;</li>
  <li>You cannot revel into dukedoms there.</li>
  <li>He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,</li>
  <li>This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,</li>
  <li class="number">Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim</li>
  <li>Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>What treasure, uncle?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Tennis-balls, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;</li>
  <li class="number">His present and your pains we thank you for:</li>
  <li>When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,</li>
  <li>We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set</li>
  <li>Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.</li>
  <li>Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler</li>
  <li class="number">That all the courts of France will be disturb'd</li>
  <li>With chaces. And we understand him well,</li>
  <li>How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,</li>
  <li>Not measuring what use we made of them.</li>
  <li>We never valued this poor seat of England;</li>
  <li class="number">And therefore, living hence, did give ourself</li>
  <li>To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common</li>
  <li>That men are merriest when they are from home.</li>
  <li>But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,</li>
  <li>Be like a king and show my sail of greatness</li>
  <li class="number">When I do rouse me in my throne of France:</li>
  <li>For that I have laid by my majesty</li>
  <li>And plodded like a man for working-days,</li>
  <li>But I will rise there with so full a glory</li>
  <li>That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,</li>
  <li class="number">Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.</li>
  <li>And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his</li>
  <li>Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul</li>
  <li>Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance</li>
  <li>That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows</li>
  <li class="number">Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;</li>
  <li>Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;</li>
  <li>And some are yet ungotten and unborn</li>
  <li>That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.</li>
  <li>But this lies all within the will of God,</li>
  <li class="number">To whom I do appeal; and in whose name</li>
  <li>Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,</li>
  <li>To venge me as I may and to put forth</li>
  <li>My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.</li>
  <li>So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin</li>
  <li class="number">His jest will savour but of shallow wit,</li>
  <li>When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.</li>
  <li>Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Ambassadors</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>This was a merry message.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We hope to make the sender blush at it.</li>
  <li class="number">Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour</li>
  <li>That may give furtherance to our expedition;</li>
  <li>For we have now no thought in us but France,</li>
  <li>Save those to God, that run before our business.</li>
  <li>Therefore let our proportions for these wars</li>
  <li class="number">Be soon collected and all things thought upon</li>
  <li>That may with reasonable swiftness add</li>
  <li>More feathers to our wings; for, God before,</li>
  <li>We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.</li>
  <li>Therefore let every man now task his thought,</li>
  <li class="number">That this fair action may on foot be brought.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt. Flourish</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT II</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  London. A street.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Well met, Corporal Nym.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>For my part, I care not: I say little; but when</li>
  <li class="number">time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that</li>
  <li>shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will</li>
  <li>wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but</li>
  <li>what though? it will toast cheese, and it will</li>
  <li>endure cold as another man's sword will: and</li>
  <li class="number">there's an end.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and</li>
  <li>we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it</li>
  <li>be so, good Corporal Nym.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the</li>
  <li class="number">certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I</li>
  <li>will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the</li>
  <li>rendezvous of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell</li>
  <li>Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you</li>
  <li class="number">were troth-plight to her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may</li>
  <li>sleep, and they may have their throats about them at</li>
  <li>that time; and some say knives have edges. It must</li>
  <li>be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet</li>
  <li class="number">she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I</li>
  <li>cannot tell.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PISTOL and Hostess</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good</li>
  <li>corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,</li>
  <li class="number">I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and</li>
  <li>board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live</li>
  <li>honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will</li>
  <li>be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">NYM and PISTOL draw</li>
  <li class="number">O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we</li>
  <li>shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Pish!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Will you shog off? I would have you solus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!</li>
  <li>The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;</li>
  <li>The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,</li>
  <li class="number">And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,</li>
  <li>And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!</li>
  <li>I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;</li>
  <li>For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,</li>
  <li>And flashing fire will follow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li class="number">I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an</li>
  <li>humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow</li>
  <li>foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my</li>
  <li>rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk</li>
  <li>off, I would prick your guts a little, in good</li>
  <li class="number">terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>O braggart vile and damned furious wight!</li>
  <li>The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;</li>
  <li>Therefore exhale.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the</li>
  <li class="number">first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Draws</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.</li>
  <li>Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:</li>
  <li>Thy spirits are most tall.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair</li>
  <li class="number">terms: that is the humour of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>'Couple a gorge!'</li>
  <li>That is the word. I thee defy again.</li>
  <li>O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?</li>
  <li>No; to the spital go,</li>
  <li class="number">And from the powdering tub of infamy</li>
  <li>Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,</li>
  <li>Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:</li>
  <li>I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly</li>
  <li>For the only she; and — pauca, there's enough. Go to.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and</li>
  <li>you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.</li>
  <li>Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and</li>
  <li>do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Away, you rogue!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of</li>
  <li>these days. The king has killed his heart. Good</li>
  <li>husband, come home presently.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Hostess and Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to</li>
  <li>France together: why the devil should we keep</li>
  <li class="number">knives to cut one another's throats?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Base is the slave that pays.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>That now I will have: that's the humour of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">As manhood shall compound: push home.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They draw</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll</li>
  <li>kill him; by this sword, I will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:</li>
  <li class="number">an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.</li>
  <li>Prithee, put up.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;</li>
  <li>And liquor likewise will I give to thee,</li>
  <li class="number">And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:</li>
  <li>I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;</li>
  <li>Is not this just? for I shall sutler be</li>
  <li>Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.</li>
  <li>Give me thy hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li class="number">I shall have my noble?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>In cash most justly paid.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Well, then, that's the humour of't.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter Hostess</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir</li>
  <li>John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning</li>
  <li class="number">quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to</li>
  <li>behold. Sweet men, come to him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's</li>
  <li>the even of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Nym, thou hast spoke the right;</li>
  <li class="number">His heart is fracted and corroborate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;</li>
  <li>he passes some humours and careers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.</li>
</ol>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Southampton. A council-chamber.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BEDFORD</li>
  <li>'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>They shall be apprehended by and by.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>How smooth and even they do bear themselves!</li>
  <li>As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,</li>
  <li class="number">Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BEDFORD</li>
  <li>The king hath note of all that they intend,</li>
  <li>By interception which they dream not of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,</li>
  <li>Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,</li>
  <li class="number">That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell</li>
  <li>His sovereign's life to death and treachery.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP,
CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.</li>
  <li>My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,</li>
  <li>And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:</li>
  <li class="number">Think you not that the powers we bear with us</li>
  <li>Will cut their passage through the force of France,</li>
  <li>Doing the execution and the act</li>
  <li>For which we have in head assembled them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded</li>
  <li>We carry not a heart with us from hence</li>
  <li>That grows not in a fair consent with ours,</li>
  <li>Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish</li>
  <li>Success and conquest to attend on us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li class="number">Never was monarch better fear'd and loved</li>
  <li>Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject</li>
  <li>That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness</li>
  <li>Under the sweet shade of your government.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GREY</li>
  <li>True: those that were your father's enemies</li>
  <li class="number">Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you</li>
  <li>With hearts create of duty and of zeal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;</li>
  <li>And shall forget the office of our hand,</li>
  <li>Sooner than quittance of desert and merit</li>
  <li class="number">According to the weight and worthiness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>So service shall with steeled sinews toil,</li>
  <li>And labour shall refresh itself with hope,</li>
  <li>To do your grace incessant services.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,</li>
  <li class="number">Enlarge the man committed yesterday,</li>
  <li>That rail'd against our person: we consider</li>
  <li>it was excess of wine that set him on;</li>
  <li>And on his more advice we pardon him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>That's mercy, but too much security:</li>
  <li class="number">Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example</li>
  <li>Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>O, let us yet be merciful.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li>So may your highness, and yet punish too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GREY</li>
  <li>Sir,</li>
  <li class="number">You show great mercy, if you give him life,</li>
  <li>After the taste of much correction.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Alas, your too much love and care of me</li>
  <li>Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!</li>
  <li>If little faults, proceeding on distemper,</li>
  <li class="number">Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye</li>
  <li>When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,</li>
  <li>Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,</li>
  <li>Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care</li>
  <li>And tender preservation of our person,</li>
  <li class="number">Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:</li>
  <li>Who are the late commissioners?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li>I one, my lord:</li>
  <li>Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>So did you me, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GREY</li>
  <li class="number">And I, my royal sovereign.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;</li>
  <li>There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,</li>
  <li>Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:</li>
  <li>Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.</li>
  <li class="number">My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,</li>
  <li>We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!</li>
  <li>What see you in those papers that you lose</li>
  <li>So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!</li>
  <li>Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there</li>
  <li class="number">That hath so cowarded and chased your blood</li>
  <li>Out of appearance?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li>I do confess my fault;</li>
  <li>And do submit me to your highness' mercy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GREY</li>
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>To which we all appeal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">The mercy that was quick in us but late,</li>
  <li>By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:</li>
  <li>You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;</li>
  <li>For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,</li>
  <li>As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.</li>
  <li class="number">See you, my princes, and my noble peers,</li>
  <li>These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,</li>
  <li>You know how apt our love was to accord</li>
  <li>To furnish him with all appertinents</li>
  <li>Belonging to his honour; and this man</li>
  <li class="number">Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,</li>
  <li>And sworn unto the practises of France,</li>
  <li>To kill us here in Hampton: to the which</li>
  <li>This knight, no less for bounty bound to us</li>
  <li>Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,</li>
  <li class="number">What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,</li>
  <li>Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!</li>
  <li>Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,</li>
  <li>That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,</li>
  <li>That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,</li>
  <li class="number">Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,</li>
  <li>May it be possible, that foreign hire</li>
  <li>Could out of thee extract one spark of evil</li>
  <li>That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,</li>
  <li>That, though the truth of it stands off as gross</li>
  <li class="number">As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.</li>
  <li>Treason and murder ever kept together,</li>
  <li>As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,</li>
  <li>Working so grossly in a natural cause,</li>
  <li>That admiration did not whoop at them:</li>
  <li class="number">But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in</li>
  <li>Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:</li>
  <li>And whatsoever cunning fiend it was</li>
  <li>That wrought upon thee so preposterously</li>
  <li>Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:</li>
  <li class="number">All other devils that suggest by treasons</li>
  <li>Do botch and bungle up damnation</li>
  <li>With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd</li>
  <li>From glistering semblances of piety;</li>
  <li>But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,</li>
  <li class="number">Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,</li>
  <li>Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.</li>
  <li>If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus</li>
  <li>Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,</li>
  <li>He might return to vasty Tartar back,</li>
  <li class="number">And tell the legions 'I can never win</li>
  <li>A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'</li>
  <li>O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected</li>
  <li>The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?</li>
  <li>Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?</li>
  <li class="number">Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?</li>
  <li>Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?</li>
  <li>Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,</li>
  <li>Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,</li>
  <li>Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,</li>
  <li class="number">Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,</li>
  <li>Not working with the eye without the ear,</li>
  <li>And but in purged judgment trusting neither?</li>
  <li>Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:</li>
  <li>And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,</li>
  <li class="number">To mark the full-fraught man and best indued</li>
  <li>With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;</li>
  <li>For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like</li>
  <li>Another fall of man. Their faults are open:</li>
  <li>Arrest them to the answer of the law;</li>
  <li class="number">And God acquit them of their practises!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</li>
  <li>Richard Earl of Cambridge.</li>
  <li>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</li>
  <li>Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.</li>
  <li class="number">I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</li>
  <li>Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SCROOP</li>
  <li>Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;</li>
  <li>And I repent my fault more than my death;</li>
  <li>Which I beseech your highness to forgive,</li>
  <li class="number">Although my body pay the price of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAMBRIDGE</li>
  <li>For me, the gold of France did not seduce;</li>
  <li>Although I did admit it as a motive</li>
  <li>The sooner to effect what I intended:</li>
  <li>But God be thanked for prevention;</li>
  <li class="number">Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,</li>
  <li>Beseeching God and you to pardon me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GREY</li>
  <li>Never did faithful subject more rejoice</li>
  <li>At the discovery of most dangerous treason</li>
  <li>Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.</li>
  <li class="number">Prevented from a damned enterprise:</li>
  <li>My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.</li>
  <li>You have conspired against our royal person,</li>
  <li>Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers</li>
  <li class="number">Received the golden earnest of our death;</li>
  <li>Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,</li>
  <li>His princes and his peers to servitude,</li>
  <li>His subjects to oppression and contempt</li>
  <li>And his whole kingdom into desolation.</li>
  <li class="number">Touching our person seek we no revenge;</li>
  <li>But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,</li>
  <li>Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws</li>
  <li>We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,</li>
  <li>Poor miserable wretches, to your death:</li>
  <li class="number">The taste whereof, God of his mercy give</li>
  <li>You patience to endure, and true repentance</li>
  <li>Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded</li>
  <li>Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof</li>
  <li>Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.</li>
  <li class="number">We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,</li>
  <li>Since God so graciously hath brought to light</li>
  <li>This dangerous treason lurking in our way</li>
  <li>To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now</li>
  <li>But every rub is smoothed on our way.</li>
  <li class="number">Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver</li>
  <li>Our puissance into the hand of God,</li>
  <li>Putting it straight in expedition.</li>
  <li>Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:</li>
  <li>No king of England, if not king of France.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  London. Before a tavern.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>No; for my manly heart doth yearn.</li>
  <li>Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:</li>
  <li>Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,</li>
  <li class="number">And we must yearn therefore.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in</li>
  <li>heaven or in hell!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's</li>
  <li>bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made</li>
  <li class="number">a finer end and went away an it had been any</li>
  <li>christom child; a' parted even just between twelve</li>
  <li>and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after</li>
  <li>I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with</li>
  <li>flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew</li>
  <li class="number">there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as</li>
  <li>a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,</li>
  <li>sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good</li>
  <li>cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or</li>
  <li>four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'</li>
  <li class="number">should not think of God; I hoped there was no need</li>
  <li>to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So</li>
  <li>a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my</li>
  <li>hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as</li>
  <li>cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and</li>
  <li class="number">they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and</li>
  <li>upward, and all was as cold as any stone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>They say he cried out of sack.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>Ay, that a' did.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>And of women.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, that a' did not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils</li>
  <li>incarnate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he</li>
  <li>never liked.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">A' said once, the devil would have him about women.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li>A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then</li>
  <li>he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon</li>
  <li>Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul</li>
  <li class="number">burning in hell-fire?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:</li>
  <li>that's all the riches I got in his service.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Shall we shog? the king will be gone from</li>
  <li>Southampton.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.</li>
  <li>Look to my chattels and my movables:</li>
  <li>Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'</li>
  <li>Trust none;</li>
  <li>For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,</li>
  <li class="number">And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:</li>
  <li>Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.</li>
  <li>Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,</li>
  <li>Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,</li>
  <li>To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">And that's but unwholesome food they say.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Touch her soft mouth, and march.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>Farewell, hostess.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Kissing her</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Hostess</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell; adieu.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  France. The KING'S palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the
DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Thus comes the English with full power upon us;</li>
  <li>And more than carefully it us concerns</li>
  <li>To answer royally in our defences.</li>
  <li>Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,</li>
  <li class="number">Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,</li>
  <li>And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,</li>
  <li>To line and new repair our towns of war</li>
  <li>With men of courage and with means defendant;</li>
  <li>For England his approaches makes as fierce</li>
  <li class="number">As waters to the sucking of a gulf.</li>
  <li>It fits us then to be as provident</li>
  <li>As fear may teach us out of late examples</li>
  <li>Left by the fatal and neglected English</li>
  <li>Upon our fields.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li class="number">My most redoubted father,</li>
  <li>It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;</li>
  <li>For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,</li>
  <li>Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,</li>
  <li>But that defences, musters, preparations,</li>
  <li class="number">Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,</li>
  <li>As were a war in expectation.</li>
  <li>Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth</li>
  <li>To view the sick and feeble parts of France:</li>
  <li>And let us do it with no show of fear;</li>
  <li class="number">No, with no more than if we heard that England</li>
  <li>Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:</li>
  <li>For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,</li>
  <li>Her sceptre so fantastically borne</li>
  <li>By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,</li>
  <li class="number">That fear attends her not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>O peace, Prince Dauphin!</li>
  <li>You are too much mistaken in this king:</li>
  <li>Question your grace the late ambassadors,</li>
  <li>With what great state he heard their embassy,</li>
  <li class="number">How well supplied with noble counsellors,</li>
  <li>How modest in exception, and withal</li>
  <li>How terrible in constant resolution,</li>
  <li>And you shall find his vanities forespent</li>
  <li>Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,</li>
  <li class="number">Covering discretion with a coat of folly;</li>
  <li>As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots</li>
  <li>That shall first spring and be most delicate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;</li>
  <li>But though we think it so, it is no matter:</li>
  <li class="number">In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh</li>
  <li>The enemy more mighty than he seems:</li>
  <li>So the proportions of defence are fill'd;</li>
  <li>Which of a weak or niggardly projection</li>
  <li>Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting</li>
  <li class="number">A little cloth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Think we King Harry strong;</li>
  <li>And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.</li>
  <li>The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;</li>
  <li>And he is bred out of that bloody strain</li>
  <li class="number">That haunted us in our familiar paths:</li>
  <li>Witness our too much memorable shame</li>
  <li>When Cressy battle fatally was struck,</li>
  <li>And all our princes captiv'd by the hand</li>
  <li>Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;</li>
  <li class="number">Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,</li>
  <li>Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,</li>
  <li>Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,</li>
  <li>Mangle the work of nature and deface</li>
  <li>The patterns that by God and by French fathers</li>
  <li class="number">Had twenty years been made. This is a stem</li>
  <li>Of that victorious stock; and let us fear</li>
  <li>The native mightiness and fate of him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Ambassadors from Harry King of England</li>
  <li>Do crave admittance to your majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li class="number">We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords</li>
  <li>You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs</li>
  <li>Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten</li>
  <li>Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,</li>
  <li class="number">Take up the English short, and let them know</li>
  <li>Of what a monarchy you are the head:</li>
  <li>Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin</li>
  <li>As self-neglecting.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>From our brother England?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li class="number">From him; and thus he greets your majesty.</li>
  <li>He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,</li>
  <li>That you divest yourself, and lay apart</li>
  <li>The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,</li>
  <li>By law of nature and of nations, 'long</li>
  <li class="number">To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown</li>
  <li>And all wide-stretched honours that pertain</li>
  <li>By custom and the ordinance of times</li>
  <li>Unto the crown of France. That you may know</li>
  <li>'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,</li>
  <li class="number">Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,</li>
  <li>Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,</li>
  <li>He sends you this most memorable line,</li>
  <li>In every branch truly demonstrative;</li>
  <li>Willing to overlook this pedigree:</li>
  <li class="number">And when you find him evenly derived</li>
  <li>From his most famed of famous ancestors,</li>
  <li>Edward the Third, he bids you then resign</li>
  <li>Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held</li>
  <li>From him the native and true challenger.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li class="number">Or else what follows?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown</li>
  <li>Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:</li>
  <li>Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,</li>
  <li>In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,</li>
  <li class="number">That, if requiring fail, he will compel;</li>
  <li>And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,</li>
  <li>Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy</li>
  <li>On the poor souls for whom this hungry war</li>
  <li>Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head</li>
  <li class="number">Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries</li>
  <li>The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,</li>
  <li>For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,</li>
  <li>That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.</li>
  <li>This is his claim, his threatening and my message;</li>
  <li class="number">Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,</li>
  <li>To whom expressly I bring greeting too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>For us, we will consider of this further:</li>
  <li>To-morrow shall you bear our full intent</li>
  <li>Back to our brother England.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li class="number">For the Dauphin,</li>
  <li>I stand here for him: what to him from England?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,</li>
  <li>And any thing that may not misbecome</li>
  <li>The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.</li>
  <li class="number">Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness</li>
  <li>Do not, in grant of all demands at large,</li>
  <li>Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,</li>
  <li>He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,</li>
  <li>That caves and womby vaultages of France</li>
  <li class="number">Shall chide your trespass and return your mock</li>
  <li>In second accent of his ordnance.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Say, if my father render fair return,</li>
  <li>It is against my will; for I desire</li>
  <li>Nothing but odds with England: to that end,</li>
  <li class="number">As matching to his youth and vanity,</li>
  <li>I did present him with the Paris balls.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,</li>
  <li>Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:</li>
  <li>And, be assured, you'll find a difference,</li>
  <li class="number">As we his subjects have in wonder found,</li>
  <li>Between the promise of his greener days</li>
  <li>And these he masters now: now he weighs time</li>
  <li>Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read</li>
  <li>In your own losses, if he stay in France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li class="number">To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king</li>
  <li>Come here himself to question our delay;</li>
  <li>For he is footed in this land already.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:</li>
  <li class="number">A night is but small breath and little pause</li>
  <li>To answer matters of this consequence.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT III</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  France. Before Harfleur.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,
GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;</li>
  <li>Or close the wall up with our English dead.</li>
  <li>In peace there's nothing so becomes a man</li>
  <li>As modest stillness and humility:</li>
  <li class="number">But when the blast of war blows in our ears,</li>
  <li>Then imitate the action of the tiger;</li>
  <li>Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,</li>
  <li>Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;</li>
  <li>Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;</li>
  <li class="number">Let pry through the portage of the head</li>
  <li>Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it</li>
  <li>As fearfully as doth a galled rock</li>
  <li>O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,</li>
  <li>Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.</li>
  <li class="number">Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,</li>
  <li>Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit</li>
  <li>To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.</li>
  <li>Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!</li>
  <li>Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,</li>
  <li class="number">Have in these parts from morn till even fought</li>
  <li>And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:</li>
  <li>Dishonour not your mothers; now attest</li>
  <li>That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.</li>
  <li>Be copy now to men of grosser blood,</li>
  <li class="number">And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,</li>
  <li>Whose limbs were made in England, show us here</li>
  <li>The mettle of your pasture; let us swear</li>
  <li>That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;</li>
  <li>For there is none of you so mean and base,</li>
  <li class="number">That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.</li>
  <li>I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,</li>
  <li>Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:</li>
  <li>Follow your spirit, and upon this charge</li>
  <li>Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The same.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BARDOLPH</li>
  <li>On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;</li>
  <li>and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:</li>
  <li>the humour of it is too hot, that is the very</li>
  <li class="number">plain-song of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:</li>
  <li>Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;</li>
  <li>And sword and shield,</li>
  <li>In bloody field,</li>
  <li class="number">Doth win immortal fame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give</li>
  <li>all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>And I:</li>
  <li>If wishes would prevail with me,</li>
  <li class="number">My purpose should not fail with me,</li>
  <li>But thither would I hie.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>As duly, but not as truly,</li>
  <li>As bird doth sing on bough.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLUELLEN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Driving them forward</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.</li>
  <li>Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,</li>
  <li>Abate thy rage, great duke!</li>
  <li>Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">NYM</li>
  <li>These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">As young as I am, I have observed these three</li>
  <li>swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they</li>
  <li>three, though they would serve me, could not be man</li>
  <li>to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to</li>
  <li>a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and</li>
  <li class="number">red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but</li>
  <li>fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue</li>
  <li>and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks</li>
  <li>words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath</li>
  <li>heard that men of few words are the best men; and</li>
  <li class="number">therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'</li>
  <li>should be thought a coward: but his few bad words</li>
  <li>are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never</li>
  <li>broke any man's head but his own, and that was</li>
  <li>against a post when he was drunk. They will steal</li>
  <li class="number">any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a</li>
  <li>lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for</li>
  <li>three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn</li>
  <li>brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a</li>
  <li>fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the</li>
  <li class="number">men would carry coals. They would have me as</li>
  <li>familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their</li>
  <li>handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,</li>
  <li>if I should take from another's pocket to put into</li>
  <li>mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I</li>
  <li class="number">must leave them, and seek some better service:</li>
  <li>their villany goes against my weak stomach, and</li>
  <li>therefore I must cast it up.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the</li>
  <li>mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good</li>
  <li>to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is</li>
  <li>not according to the disciplines of the war: the</li>
  <li>concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,</li>
  <li>the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look</li>
  <li class="number">you, is digt himself four yard under the</li>
  <li>countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up</li>
  <li>all, if there is not better directions.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the</li>
  <li>siege is given, is altogether directed by an</li>
  <li class="number">Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>I think it be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will</li>
  <li>verify as much in his beard: be has no more</li>
  <li class="number">directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look</li>
  <li>you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,</li>
  <li>that is certain; and of great expedition and</li>
  <li class="number">knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular</li>
  <li>knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will</li>
  <li>maintain his argument as well as any military man in</li>
  <li>the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars</li>
  <li>of the Romans.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAMY</li>
  <li class="number">I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>God-den to your worship, good Captain James.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the</li>
  <li>mines? have the pioneers given o'er?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MACMORRIS</li>
  <li>By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give</li>
  <li class="number">over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I</li>
  <li>swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;</li>
  <li>it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so</li>
  <li>Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,</li>
  <li>tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you</li>
  <li>voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,</li>
  <li>as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of</li>
  <li>the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,</li>
  <li>look you, and friendly communication; partly to</li>
  <li class="number">satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,</li>
  <li>look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of</li>
  <li>the military discipline; that is the point.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAMY</li>
  <li>It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:</li>
  <li>and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick</li>
  <li class="number">occasion; that sall I, marry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MACMORRIS</li>
  <li>It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the</li>
  <li>day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the</li>
  <li>king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The</li>
  <li>town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the</li>
  <li class="number">breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:</li>
  <li>'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to</li>
  <li>stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is</li>
  <li>throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there</li>
  <li>ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAMY</li>
  <li class="number">By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves</li>
  <li>to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'</li>
  <li>the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay</li>
  <li>'t as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,</li>
  <li>that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full</li>
  <li class="number">fain hear some question 'tween you tway.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your</li>
  <li>correction, there is not many of your nation — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MACMORRIS</li>
  <li>Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,</li>
  <li>and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish</li>
  <li class="number">my nation? Who talks of my nation?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is</li>
  <li>meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think</li>
  <li>you do not use me with that affability as in</li>
  <li>discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as</li>
  <li class="number">good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of</li>
  <li>war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in</li>
  <li>other particularities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MACMORRIS</li>
  <li>I do not know you so good a man as myself: so</li>
  <li>Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAMY</li>
  <li>A! that's a foul fault.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">A parley sounded</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>The town sounds a parley.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Captain Macmorris, when there is more better</li>
  <li>opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so</li>
  <li class="number">bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;</li>
  <li>and there is an end.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The same. Before the gates.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the
English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>How yet resolves the governor of the town?</li>
  <li>This is the latest parle we will admit;</li>
  <li>Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;</li>
  <li>Or like to men proud of destruction</li>
  <li class="number">Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,</li>
  <li>A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,</li>
  <li>If I begin the battery once again,</li>
  <li>I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur</li>
  <li>Till in her ashes she lie buried.</li>
  <li class="number">The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,</li>
  <li>And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,</li>
  <li>In liberty of bloody hand shall range</li>
  <li>With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass</li>
  <li>Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.</li>
  <li class="number">What is it then to me, if impious war,</li>
  <li>Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,</li>
  <li>Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats</li>
  <li>Enlink'd to waste and desolation?</li>
  <li>What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,</li>
  <li class="number">If your pure maidens fall into the hand</li>
  <li>Of hot and forcing violation?</li>
  <li>What rein can hold licentious wickedness</li>
  <li>When down the hill he holds his fierce career?</li>
  <li>We may as bootless spend our vain command</li>
  <li class="number">Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil</li>
  <li>As send precepts to the leviathan</li>
  <li>To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,</li>
  <li>Take pity of your town and of your people,</li>
  <li>Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;</li>
  <li class="number">Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace</li>
  <li>O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds</li>
  <li>Of heady murder, spoil and villany.</li>
  <li>If not, why, in a moment look to see</li>
  <li>The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand</li>
  <li class="number">Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;</li>
  <li>Your fathers taken by the silver beards,</li>
  <li>And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,</li>
  <li>Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,</li>
  <li>Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused</li>
  <li class="number">Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry</li>
  <li>At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.</li>
  <li>What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,</li>
  <li>Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOVERNOR</li>
  <li>Our expectation hath this day an end:</li>
  <li class="number">The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,</li>
  <li>Returns us that his powers are yet not ready</li>
  <li>To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,</li>
  <li>We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.</li>
  <li>Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;</li>
  <li class="number">For we no longer are defensible.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,</li>
  <li>Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,</li>
  <li>And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:</li>
  <li>Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,</li>
  <li class="number">The winter coming on and sickness growing</li>
  <li>Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.</li>
  <li>To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;</li>
  <li>To-morrow for the march are we addrest.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. The King and his train enter the town</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The FRENCH KING's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KATHARINE and ALICE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Un peu, madame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a</li>
  <li>parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li class="number">La main? elle est appelee de hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De hand. Et les doigts?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me</li>
  <li>souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont</li>
  <li>appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense</li>
  <li>que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots</li>
  <li>d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de</li>
  <li class="number">hand, de fingres, et de nails.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>De arm, madame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Et le coude?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li class="number">De elbow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les</li>
  <li>mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,</li>
  <li class="number">de nails, de arma, de bilbow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>De elbow, madame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment</li>
  <li>appelez-vous le col?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>De neck, madame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">De nick. Et le menton?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>De chin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez</li>
  <li>les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,</li>
  <li>et en peu de temps.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de</li>
  <li>fingres, de mails — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li class="number">De nails, madame.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De nails, de arm, de ilbow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment</li>
  <li>appelez-vous le pied et la robe?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li class="number">De foot, madame; et de coun.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots</li>
  <li>de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et</li>
  <li>non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais</li>
  <li>prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France</li>
  <li class="number">pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!</li>
  <li>Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon</li>
  <li>ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de</li>
  <li>elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Excellent, madame!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  The same.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF
BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>And if he be not fought withal, my lord,</li>
  <li>Let us not live in France; let us quit all</li>
  <li>And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li class="number">O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,</li>
  <li>The emptying of our fathers' luxury,</li>
  <li>Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,</li>
  <li>Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,</li>
  <li>And overlook their grafters?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BOURBON</li>
  <li class="number">Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!</li>
  <li>Mort de ma vie! if they march along</li>
  <li>Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,</li>
  <li>To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm</li>
  <li>In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?</li>
  <li>Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,</li>
  <li>On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,</li>
  <li>Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,</li>
  <li>A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,</li>
  <li class="number">Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?</li>
  <li>And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,</li>
  <li>Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,</li>
  <li>Let us not hang like roping icicles</li>
  <li>Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people</li>
  <li class="number">Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!</li>
  <li>Poor we may call them in their native lords.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>By faith and honour,</li>
  <li>Our madams mock at us, and plainly say</li>
  <li>Our mettle is bred out and they will give</li>
  <li class="number">Their bodies to the lust of English youth</li>
  <li>To new-store France with bastard warriors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BOURBON</li>
  <li>They bid us to the English dancing-schools,</li>
  <li>And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;</li>
  <li>Saying our grace is only in our heels,</li>
  <li class="number">And that we are most lofty runaways.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:</li>
  <li>Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.</li>
  <li>Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged</li>
  <li>More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:</li>
  <li class="number">Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;</li>
  <li>You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,</li>
  <li>Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;</li>
  <li>Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,</li>
  <li>Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,</li>
  <li class="number">Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;</li>
  <li>High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,</li>
  <li>For your great seats now quit you of great shames.</li>
  <li>Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land</li>
  <li>With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:</li>
  <li class="number">Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow</li>
  <li>Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat</li>
  <li>The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:</li>
  <li>Go down upon him, you have power enough,</li>
  <li>And in a captive chariot into Rouen</li>
  <li class="number">Bring him our prisoner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>This becomes the great.</li>
  <li>Sorry am I his numbers are so few,</li>
  <li>His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,</li>
  <li>For I am sure, when he shall see our army,</li>
  <li class="number">He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear</li>
  <li>And for achievement offer us his ransom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.</li>
  <li>And let him say to England that we send</li>
  <li>To know what willing ransom he will give.</li>
  <li class="number">Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Not so, I do beseech your majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Be patient, for you shall remain with us.</li>
  <li>Now forth, lord constable and princes all,</li>
  <li>And quickly bring us word of England's fall.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  The English camp in Picardy.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I assure you, there is very excellent services</li>
  <li>committed at the bridge.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Is the Duke of Exeter safe?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;</li>
  <li>and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my</li>
  <li>heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and</li>
  <li>my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and</li>
  <li>blessed! — any hurt in the world; but keeps the</li>
  <li class="number">bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.</li>
  <li>There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the</li>
  <li>pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as</li>
  <li>valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no</li>
  <li>estimation in the world; but did see him do as</li>
  <li class="number">gallant service.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>What do you call him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>He is called Aunchient Pistol.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>I know him not.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PISTOL</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Here is the man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:</li>
  <li>The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at</li>
  <li>his hands.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,</li>
  <li class="number">And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,</li>
  <li>And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,</li>
  <li>That goddess blind,</li>
  <li>That stands upon the rolling restless stone — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is</li>
  <li class="number">painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to</li>
  <li>signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is</li>
  <li>painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which</li>
  <li>is the moral of it, that she is turning, and</li>
  <li>inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her</li>
  <li class="number">foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,</li>
  <li>which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,</li>
  <li>the poet makes a most excellent description of it:</li>
  <li>Fortune is an excellent moral.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;</li>
  <li class="number">For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:</li>
  <li>A damned death!</li>
  <li>Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free</li>
  <li>And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:</li>
  <li>But Exeter hath given the doom of death</li>
  <li class="number">For pax of little price.</li>
  <li>Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:</li>
  <li>And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut</li>
  <li>With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:</li>
  <li>Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Why then, rejoice therefore.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice</li>
  <li>at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would</li>
  <li>desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put</li>
  <li class="number">him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>It is well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>The fig of Spain!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Very good.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I</li>
  <li>remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the</li>
  <li>bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it</li>
  <li>is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,</li>
  <li class="number">I warrant you, when time is serve.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then</li>
  <li>goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return</li>
  <li>into London under the form of a soldier. And such</li>
  <li>fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:</li>
  <li class="number">and they will learn you by rote where services were</li>
  <li>done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,</li>
  <li>at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was</li>
  <li>shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;</li>
  <li>and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,</li>
  <li class="number">which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what</li>
  <li>a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of</li>
  <li>the camp will do among foaming bottles and</li>
  <li>ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But</li>
  <li>you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or</li>
  <li class="number">else you may be marvellously mistook.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is</li>
  <li>not the man that he would gladly make show to the</li>
  <li>world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will</li>
  <li>tell him my mind.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Drum heard</li>
  <li class="number">Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with</li>
  <li>him from the pridge.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers</li>
  <li>God pless your majesty!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has</li>
  <li class="number">very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is</li>
  <li>gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most</li>
  <li>prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have</li>
  <li>possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to</li>
  <li>retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the</li>
  <li class="number">pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a</li>
  <li>prave man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>What men have you lost, Fluellen?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>The perdition of th' athversary hath been very</li>
  <li>great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I</li>
  <li class="number">think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that</li>
  <li>is like to be executed for robbing a church, one</li>
  <li>Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is</li>
  <li>all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'</li>
  <li>fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like</li>
  <li class="number">a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;</li>
  <li>but his nose is executed and his fire's out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we</li>
  <li>give express charge, that in our marches through the</li>
  <li>country, there be nothing compelled from the</li>
  <li class="number">villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the</li>
  <li>French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;</li>
  <li>for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the</li>
  <li>gentler gamester is the soonest winner.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Tucket. Enter MONTJOY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>You know me by my habit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>My master's mind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Unfold it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:</li>
  <li>Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage</li>
  <li class="number">is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we</li>
  <li>could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we</li>
  <li>thought not good to bruise an injury till it were</li>
  <li>full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice</li>
  <li>is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see</li>
  <li class="number">his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him</li>
  <li>therefore consider of his ransom; which must</li>
  <li>proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we</li>
  <li>have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in</li>
  <li>weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.</li>
  <li class="number">For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the</li>
  <li>effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too</li>
  <li>faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own</li>
  <li>person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and</li>
  <li>worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and</li>
  <li class="number">tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his</li>
  <li>followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far</li>
  <li>my king and master; so much my office.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>What is thy name? I know thy quality.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>Montjoy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.</li>
  <li>And tell thy king I do not seek him now;</li>
  <li>But could be willing to march on to Calais</li>
  <li>Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,</li>
  <li>Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much</li>
  <li class="number">Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,</li>
  <li>My people are with sickness much enfeebled,</li>
  <li>My numbers lessened, and those few I have</li>
  <li>Almost no better than so many French;</li>
  <li>Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,</li>
  <li class="number">I thought upon one pair of English legs</li>
  <li>Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,</li>
  <li>That I do brag thus! This your air of France</li>
  <li>Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.</li>
  <li>Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;</li>
  <li class="number">My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,</li>
  <li>My army but a weak and sickly guard;</li>
  <li>Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,</li>
  <li>Though France himself and such another neighbour</li>
  <li>Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.</li>
  <li class="number">Go bid thy master well advise himself:</li>
  <li>If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,</li>
  <li>We shall your tawny ground with your red blood</li>
  <li>Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.</li>
  <li>The sum of all our answer is but this:</li>
  <li class="number">We would not seek a battle, as we are;</li>
  <li>Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:</li>
  <li>So tell your master.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li>I hope they will not come upon us now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.</li>
  <li>March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:</li>
  <li>Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,</li>
  <li>And on to-morrow, bid them march away.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  The French camp, near Agincourt:</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES,
ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>It is the best horse of Europe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>Will it never be morning?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li class="number">My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you</li>
  <li>talk of horse and armour?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>What a long night is this! I will not change my</li>
  <li>horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.</li>
  <li class="number">Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his</li>
  <li>entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,</li>
  <li>chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I</li>
  <li>soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth</li>
  <li>sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his</li>
  <li class="number">hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>He's of the colour of the nutmeg.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for</li>
  <li>Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull</li>
  <li>elements of earth and water never appear in him, but</li>
  <li class="number">only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts</li>
  <li>him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you</li>
  <li>may call beasts.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the</li>
  <li class="number">bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>No more, cousin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the</li>
  <li>rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary</li>
  <li>deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as</li>
  <li class="number">fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent</li>
  <li>tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:</li>
  <li>'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for</li>
  <li>a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the</li>
  <li>world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart</li>
  <li class="number">their particular functions and wonder at him. I</li>
  <li>once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:</li>
  <li>'Wonder of nature,' — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Then did they imitate that which I composed to my</li>
  <li class="number">courser, for my horse is my mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>Your mistress bears well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Me well; which is the prescript praise and</li>
  <li>perfection of a good and particular mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly</li>
  <li class="number">shook your back.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>So perhaps did yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Mine was not bridled.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,</li>
  <li>like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in</li>
  <li class="number">your straight strossers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>You have good judgment in horsemanship.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride</li>
  <li>not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have</li>
  <li>my horse to my mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">I had as lief have my mistress a jade.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow</li>
  <li>to my mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et</li>
  <li class="number">la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any</li>
  <li>such proverb so little kin to the purpose.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">RAMBURES</li>
  <li>My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent</li>
  <li>to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">Stars, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>And yet my sky shall not want.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and</li>
  <li>'twere more honour some were away.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">Even as your horse bears your praises; who would</li>
  <li>trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will</li>
  <li>it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and</li>
  <li>my way shall be paved with English faces.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of</li>
  <li>my way: but I would it were morning; for I would</li>
  <li>fain be about the ears of the English.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">RAMBURES</li>
  <li>Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>The Dauphin longs for morning.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">RAMBURES</li>
  <li>He longs to eat the English.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>I think he will eat all he kills.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>He is simply the most active gentleman of France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>He never did harm, that I heard of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">I know him to be valiant.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>I was told that by one that knows him better than</li>
  <li>you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>What's he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared</li>
  <li class="number">not who knew it</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it</li>
  <li>but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it</li>
  <li>appears, it will bate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">Ill will never said well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Well placed: there stands your friend for the</li>
  <li>devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A</li>
  <li class="number">pox of the devil.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A</li>
  <li>fool's bolt is soon shot.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>You have shot over.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>'Tis not the first time you were overshot.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li class="number">My lord high constable, the English lie within</li>
  <li>fifteen hundred paces of your tents.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Who hath measured the ground?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>The Lord Grandpre.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were</li>
  <li class="number">day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for</li>
  <li>the dawning as we do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of</li>
  <li>England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so</li>
  <li>far out of his knowledge!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>That they lack; for if their heads had any</li>
  <li>intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy</li>
  <li>head-pieces.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">RAMBURES</li>
  <li>That island of England breeds very valiant</li>
  <li class="number">creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a</li>
  <li>Russian bear and have their heads crushed like</li>
  <li>rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a</li>
  <li>valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the</li>
  <li>mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving</li>
  <li>their wits with their wives: and then give them</li>
  <li>great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will</li>
  <li>eat like wolves and fight like devils.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs</li>
  <li>to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:</li>
  <li>come, shall we about it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten</li>
  <li class="number">We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT IV</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The English camp at Agincourt.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;</li>
  <li>The greater therefore should our courage be.</li>
  <li>Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!</li>
  <li>There is some soul of goodness in things evil,</li>
  <li class="number">Would men observingly distil it out.</li>
  <li>For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,</li>
  <li>Which is both healthful and good husbandry:</li>
  <li>Besides, they are our outward consciences,</li>
  <li>And preachers to us all, admonishing</li>
  <li class="number">That we should dress us fairly for our end.</li>
  <li>Thus may we gather honey from the weed,</li>
  <li>And make a moral of the devil himself.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:</li>
  <li>A good soft pillow for that good white head</li>
  <li class="number">Were better than a churlish turf of France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,</li>
  <li>Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>'Tis good for men to love their present pains</li>
  <li>Upon example; so the spirit is eased:</li>
  <li class="number">And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,</li>
  <li>The organs, though defunct and dead before,</li>
  <li>Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,</li>
  <li>With casted slough and fresh legerity.</li>
  <li>Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,</li>
  <li class="number">Commend me to the princes in our camp;</li>
  <li>Do my good morrow to them, and anon</li>
  <li>Desire them an to my pavilion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li>We shall, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>Shall I attend your grace?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">No, my good knight;</li>
  <li>Go with my brothers to my lords of England:</li>
  <li>I and my bosom must debate awhile,</li>
  <li>And then I would no other company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but KING HENRY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PISTOL</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Qui va la?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>A friend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Discuss unto me; art thou officer?</li>
  <li>Or art thou base, common and popular?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">I am a gentleman of a company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Trail'st thou the puissant pike?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Even so. What are you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>As good a gentleman as the emperor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Then you are a better than the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,</li>
  <li>A lad of life, an imp of fame;</li>
  <li>Of parents good, of fist most valiant.</li>
  <li>I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string</li>
  <li>I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Harry le Roy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No, I am a Welshman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Know'st thou Fluellen?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Yes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate</li>
  <li>Upon Saint Davy's day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,</li>
  <li>lest he knock that about yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Art thou his friend?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">And his kinsman too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>The figo for thee, then!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I thank you: God be with you!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>My name is Pistol call'd.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>It sorts well with your fierceness.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Captain Fluellen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is</li>
  <li>the greatest admiration of the universal world, when</li>
  <li>the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the</li>
  <li>wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to</li>
  <li class="number">examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall</li>
  <li>find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle</li>
  <li>nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,</li>
  <li>you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the</li>
  <li>cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety</li>
  <li class="number">of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating</li>
  <li>coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,</li>
  <li>look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating</li>
  <li class="number">coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>I will speak lower.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I pray you and beseech you that you will.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Though it appear a little out of fashion,</li>
  <li>There is much care and valour in this Welshman.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT,
and MICHAEL WILLIAMS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">COURT</li>
  <li class="number">Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which</li>
  <li>breaks yonder?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire</li>
  <li>the approach of day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think</li>
  <li class="number">we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>A friend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Under what captain serve you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I</li>
  <li class="number">pray you, what thinks he of our estate?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be</li>
  <li>washed off the next tide.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>He hath not told his thought to the king?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I</li>
  <li class="number">speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I</li>
  <li>am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the</li>
  <li>element shows to him as it doth to me; all his</li>
  <li>senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies</li>
  <li>laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and</li>
  <li class="number">though his affections are higher mounted than ours,</li>
  <li>yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like</li>
  <li>wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we</li>
  <li>do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish</li>
  <li>as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess</li>
  <li class="number">him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing</li>
  <li>it, should dishearten his army.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>He may show what outward courage he will; but I</li>
  <li>believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish</li>
  <li>himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he</li>
  <li class="number">were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:</li>
  <li>I think he would not wish himself any where but</li>
  <li>where he is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>Then I would he were here alone; so should he be</li>
  <li class="number">sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here</li>
  <li>alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's</li>
  <li>minds: methinks I could not die any where so</li>
  <li>contented as in the king's company; his cause being</li>
  <li class="number">just and his quarrel honourable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>That's more than we know.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know</li>
  <li>enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if</li>
  <li>his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes</li>
  <li class="number">the crime of it out of us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath</li>
  <li>a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and</li>
  <li>arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join</li>
  <li>together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at</li>
  <li class="number">such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a</li>
  <li>surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind</li>
  <li>them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their</li>
  <li>children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die</li>
  <li>well that die in a battle; for how can they</li>
  <li class="number">charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their</li>
  <li>argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it</li>
  <li>will be a black matter for the king that led them to</li>
  <li>it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of</li>
  <li>subjection.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">So, if a son that is by his father sent about</li>
  <li>merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the</li>
  <li>imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be</li>
  <li>imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a</li>
  <li>servant, under his master's command transporting a</li>
  <li class="number">sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in</li>
  <li>many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the</li>
  <li>business of the master the author of the servant's</li>
  <li>damnation: but this is not so: the king is not</li>
  <li>bound to answer the particular endings of his</li>
  <li class="number">soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of</li>
  <li>his servant; for they purpose not their death, when</li>
  <li>they purpose their services. Besides, there is no</li>
  <li>king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to</li>
  <li>the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all</li>
  <li class="number">unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them</li>
  <li>the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;</li>
  <li>some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of</li>
  <li>perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that</li>
  <li>have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with</li>
  <li class="number">pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have</li>
  <li>defeated the law and outrun native punishment,</li>
  <li>though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to</li>
  <li>fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;</li>
  <li>so that here men are punished for before-breach of</li>
  <li class="number">the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where</li>
  <li>they feared the death, they have borne life away;</li>
  <li>and where they would be safe, they perish: then if</li>
  <li>they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of</li>
  <li>their damnation than he was before guilty of those</li>
  <li class="number">impieties for the which they are now visited. Every</li>
  <li>subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's</li>
  <li>soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in</li>
  <li>the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every</li>
  <li>mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death</li>
  <li class="number">is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was</li>
  <li>blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:</li>
  <li>and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think</li>
  <li>that, making God so free an offer, He let him</li>
  <li>outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach</li>
  <li class="number">others how they should prepare.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon</li>
  <li>his own head, the king is not to answer it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>But I do not desire he should answer for me; and</li>
  <li>yet I determine to fight lustily for him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but</li>
  <li>when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we</li>
  <li>ne'er the wiser.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an</li>
  <li>elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can</li>
  <li>do against a monarch! you may as well go about to</li>
  <li>turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a</li>
  <li>peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word</li>
  <li class="number">after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Your reproof is something too round: I should be</li>
  <li>angry with you, if the time were convenient.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I embrace it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">How shall I know thee again?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my</li>
  <li>bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I</li>
  <li>will make it my quarrel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Here's my glove: give me another of thine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">There.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come</li>
  <li>to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'</li>
  <li>by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">Thou darest as well be hanged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the</li>
  <li>king's company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Keep thy word: fare thee well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BATES</li>
  <li>Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have</li>
  <li class="number">French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to</li>
  <li>one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their</li>
  <li>shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut</li>
  <li>French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will</li>
  <li class="number">be a clipper.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt soldiers</li>
  <li>Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,</li>
  <li>Our debts, our careful wives,</li>
  <li>Our children and our sins lay on the king!</li>
  <li>We must bear all. O hard condition,</li>
  <li class="number">Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath</li>
  <li>Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel</li>
  <li>But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease</li>
  <li>Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!</li>
  <li>And what have kings, that privates have not too,</li>
  <li class="number">Save ceremony, save general ceremony?</li>
  <li>And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?</li>
  <li>What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more</li>
  <li>Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?</li>
  <li>What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?</li>
  <li class="number">O ceremony, show me but thy worth!</li>
  <li>What is thy soul of adoration?</li>
  <li>Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,</li>
  <li>Creating awe and fear in other men?</li>
  <li>Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd</li>
  <li class="number">Than they in fearing.</li>
  <li>What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,</li>
  <li>But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,</li>
  <li>And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!</li>
  <li>Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out</li>
  <li class="number">With titles blown from adulation?</li>
  <li>Will it give place to flexure and low bending?</li>
  <li>Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,</li>
  <li>Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,</li>
  <li>That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;</li>
  <li class="number">I am a king that find thee, and I know</li>
  <li>'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,</li>
  <li>The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,</li>
  <li>The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,</li>
  <li>The farced title running 'fore the king,</li>
  <li class="number">The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp</li>
  <li>That beats upon the high shore of this world,</li>
  <li>No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,</li>
  <li>Not all these, laid in bed majestical,</li>
  <li>Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,</li>
  <li class="number">Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind</li>
  <li>Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;</li>
  <li>Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,</li>
  <li>But, like a lackey, from the rise to set</li>
  <li>Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night</li>
  <li class="number">Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,</li>
  <li>Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,</li>
  <li>And follows so the ever-running year,</li>
  <li>With profitable labour, to his grave:</li>
  <li>And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,</li>
  <li class="number">Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,</li>
  <li>Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.</li>
  <li>The slave, a member of the country's peace,</li>
  <li>Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots</li>
  <li>What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,</li>
  <li class="number">Whose hours the peasant best advantages.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ERPINGHAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,</li>
  <li>Seek through your camp to find you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Good old knight,</li>
  <li>Collect them all together at my tent:</li>
  <li class="number">I'll be before thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ERPINGHAM</li>
  <li>I shall do't, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;</li>
  <li>Possess them not with fear; take from them now</li>
  <li>The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers</li>
  <li class="number">Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,</li>
  <li>O, not to-day, think not upon the fault</li>
  <li>My father made in compassing the crown!</li>
  <li>I Richard's body have interred anew;</li>
  <li>And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears</li>
  <li class="number">Than from it issued forced drops of blood:</li>
  <li>Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,</li>
  <li>Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up</li>
  <li>Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built</li>
  <li>Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests</li>
  <li class="number">Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;</li>
  <li>Though all that I can do is nothing worth,</li>
  <li>Since that my penitence comes after all,</li>
  <li>Imploring pardon.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GLOUCESTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li>My liege!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;</li>
  <li>I know thy errand, I will go with thee:</li>
  <li>The day, my friends and all things stay for me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The French camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>O brave spirit!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Via! les eaux et la terre.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">Rien puis? L'air et la feu.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Ciel, cousin Orleans.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter Constable</li>
  <li>Now, my lord constable!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Mount them, and make incision in their hides,</li>
  <li class="number">That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,</li>
  <li>And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">RAMBURES</li>
  <li>What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?</li>
  <li>How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>The English are embattled, you French peers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!</li>
  <li>Do but behold yon poor and starved band,</li>
  <li>And your fair show shall suck away their souls,</li>
  <li>Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.</li>
  <li>There is not work enough for all our hands;</li>
  <li class="number">Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins</li>
  <li>To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,</li>
  <li>That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,</li>
  <li>And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,</li>
  <li>The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,</li>
  <li>That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,</li>
  <li>Who in unnecessary action swarm</li>
  <li>About our squares of battle, were enow</li>
  <li>To purge this field of such a hilding foe,</li>
  <li class="number">Though we upon this mountain's basis by</li>
  <li>Took stand for idle speculation:</li>
  <li>But that our honours must not. What's to say?</li>
  <li>A very little little let us do.</li>
  <li>And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound</li>
  <li class="number">The tucket sonance and the note to mount;</li>
  <li>For our approach shall so much dare the field</li>
  <li>That England shall couch down in fear and yield.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GRANDPRE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GRANDPRE</li>
  <li>Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?</li>
  <li>Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,</li>
  <li class="number">Ill-favouredly become the morning field:</li>
  <li>Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,</li>
  <li>And our air shakes them passing scornfully:</li>
  <li>Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host</li>
  <li>And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:</li>
  <li class="number">The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,</li>
  <li>With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades</li>
  <li>Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,</li>
  <li>The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes</li>
  <li>And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit</li>
  <li class="number">Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;</li>
  <li>And their executors, the knavish crows,</li>
  <li>Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.</li>
  <li>Description cannot suit itself in words</li>
  <li>To demonstrate the life of such a battle</li>
  <li class="number">In life so lifeless as it shows itself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits</li>
  <li>And give their fasting horses provender,</li>
  <li>And after fight with them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li class="number">I stay but for my guidon: to the field!</li>
  <li>I will the banner from a trumpet take,</li>
  <li>And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!</li>
  <li>The sun is high, and we outwear the day.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The English camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with
all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li>Where is the king?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BEDFORD</li>
  <li>The king himself is rode to view their battle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SALISBURY</li>
  <li class="number">God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.</li>
  <li>God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:</li>
  <li>If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,</li>
  <li>Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,</li>
  <li>My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,</li>
  <li class="number">And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BEDFORD</li>
  <li>Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:</li>
  <li>And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,</li>
  <li>For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit SALISBURY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BEDFORD</li>
  <li class="number">He is full of valour as of kindness;</li>
  <li>Princely in both.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the KING</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>O that we now had here</li>
  <li>But one ten thousand of those men in England</li>
  <li>That do no work to-day!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">What's he that wishes so?</li>
  <li>My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:</li>
  <li>If we are mark'd to die, we are enow</li>
  <li>To do our country loss; and if to live,</li>
  <li>The fewer men, the greater share of honour.</li>
  <li class="number">God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.</li>
  <li>By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,</li>
  <li>Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;</li>
  <li>It yearns me not if men my garments wear;</li>
  <li>Such outward things dwell not in my desires:</li>
  <li class="number">But if it be a sin to covet honour,</li>
  <li>I am the most offending soul alive.</li>
  <li>No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:</li>
  <li>God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour</li>
  <li>As one man more, methinks, would share from me</li>
  <li class="number">For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!</li>
  <li>Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,</li>
  <li>That he which hath no stomach to this fight,</li>
  <li>Let him depart; his passport shall be made</li>
  <li>And crowns for convoy put into his purse:</li>
  <li class="number">We would not die in that man's company</li>
  <li>That fears his fellowship to die with us.</li>
  <li>This day is called the feast of Crispian:</li>
  <li>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,</li>
  <li>Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,</li>
  <li class="number">And rouse him at the name of Crispian.</li>
  <li>He that shall live this day, and see old age,</li>
  <li>Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,</li>
  <li>And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'</li>
  <li>Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.</li>
  <li class="number">And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'</li>
  <li>Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,</li>
  <li>But he'll remember with advantages</li>
  <li>What feats he did that day: then shall our names.</li>
  <li>Familiar in his mouth as household words</li>
  <li class="number">Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,</li>
  <li>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,</li>
  <li>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.</li>
  <li>This story shall the good man teach his son;</li>
  <li>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,</li>
  <li class="number">From this day to the ending of the world,</li>
  <li>But we in it shall be remember'd;</li>
  <li>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;</li>
  <li>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me</li>
  <li>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,</li>
  <li class="number">This day shall gentle his condition:</li>
  <li>And gentlemen in England now a-bed</li>
  <li>Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,</li>
  <li>And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks</li>
  <li>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter SALISBURY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SALISBURY</li>
  <li class="number">My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:</li>
  <li>The French are bravely in their battles set,</li>
  <li>And will with all expedience charge on us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>All things are ready, if our minds be so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>Perish the man whose mind is backward now!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,</li>
  <li>Without more help, could fight this royal battle!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;</li>
  <li>Which likes me better than to wish us one.</li>
  <li class="number">You know your places: God be with you all!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Tucket. Enter MONTJOY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,</li>
  <li>If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,</li>
  <li>Before thy most assured overthrow:</li>
  <li>For certainly thou art so near the gulf,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,</li>
  <li>The constable desires thee thou wilt mind</li>
  <li>Thy followers of repentance; that their souls</li>
  <li>May make a peaceful and a sweet retire</li>
  <li>From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies</li>
  <li class="number">Must lie and fester.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Who hath sent thee now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>The Constable of France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I pray thee, bear my former answer back:</li>
  <li>Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.</li>
  <li class="number">Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?</li>
  <li>The man that once did sell the lion's skin</li>
  <li>While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.</li>
  <li>A many of our bodies shall no doubt</li>
  <li>Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,</li>
  <li class="number">Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:</li>
  <li>And those that leave their valiant bones in France,</li>
  <li>Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,</li>
  <li>They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,</li>
  <li>And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;</li>
  <li class="number">Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,</li>
  <li>The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.</li>
  <li>Mark then abounding valour in our English,</li>
  <li>That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,</li>
  <li>Break out into a second course of mischief,</li>
  <li class="number">Killing in relapse of mortality.</li>
  <li>Let me speak proudly: tell the constable</li>
  <li>We are but warriors for the working-day;</li>
  <li>Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd</li>
  <li>With rainy marching in the painful field;</li>
  <li class="number">There's not a piece of feather in our host — </li>
  <li>Good argument, I hope, we will not fly — </li>
  <li>And time hath worn us into slovenry:</li>
  <li>But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;</li>
  <li>And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night</li>
  <li class="number">They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck</li>
  <li>The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads</li>
  <li>And turn them out of service. If they do this —  </li>
  <li>As, if God please, they shall —  my ransom then</li>
  <li>Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;</li>
  <li class="number">Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:</li>
  <li>They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;</li>
  <li>Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,</li>
  <li>Shall yield them little, tell the constable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:</li>
  <li class="number">Thou never shalt hear herald any more.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter YORK</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">YORK</li>
  <li>My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg</li>
  <li>The leading of the vaward.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:</li>
  <li class="number">And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The field of battle.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Yield, cur!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li>Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?</li>
  <li>what is thy name? discuss.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">O Seigneur Dieu!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:</li>
  <li>Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;</li>
  <li>O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,</li>
  <li>Except, O signieur, thou do give to me</li>
  <li class="number">Egregious ransom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li>O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;</li>
  <li>Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat</li>
  <li>In drops of crimson blood.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Brass, cur!</li>
  <li>Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,</li>
  <li>Offer'st me brass?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li>O pardonnez moi!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?</li>
  <li>Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French</li>
  <li>What is his name.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li>Monsieur le Fer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">He says his name is Master Fer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret</li>
  <li>him: discuss the same in French unto him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Que dit-il, monsieur?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous</li>
  <li>pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette</li>
  <li>heure de couper votre gorge.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,</li>
  <li class="number">Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;</li>
  <li>Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li>O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me</li>
  <li>pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:</li>
  <li>gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">What are his words?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of</li>
  <li>a good house; and for his ransom he will give you</li>
  <li>two hundred crowns.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Petit monsieur, que dit-il?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner</li>
  <li>aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous</li>
  <li>l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la</li>
  <li>liberte, le franchisement.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">French Soldier</li>
  <li class="number">Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et</li>
  <li>je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les</li>
  <li>mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,</li>
  <li>vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Expound unto me, boy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li class="number">He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and</li>
  <li>he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into</li>
  <li>the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,</li>
  <li>valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.</li>
  <li class="number">Follow me!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Boy</li>
  <li>Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier</li>
  <li>I did never know so full a voice issue from so</li>
  <li>empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty</li>
  <li>vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym</li>
  <li class="number">had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'</li>
  <li>the old play, that every one may pare his nails with</li>
  <li>a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so</li>
  <li>would this be, if he durst steal any thing</li>
  <li>adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with</li>
  <li class="number">the luggage of our camp: the French might have a</li>
  <li>good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is</li>
  <li>none to guard it but boys.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>O diable!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li>O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!</li>
  <li>Reproach and everlasting shame</li>
  <li class="number">Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!</li>
  <li>Do not run away.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">A short alarum</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Why, all our ranks are broke.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DAUPHIN</li>
  <li>O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.</li>
  <li>Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BOURBON</li>
  <li>Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!</li>
  <li>Let us die in honour: once more back again;</li>
  <li>And he that will not follow Bourbon now,</li>
  <li>Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,</li>
  <li class="number">Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door</li>
  <li>Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,</li>
  <li>His fairest daughter is contaminated.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Constable</li>
  <li>Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!</li>
  <li>Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLEANS</li>
  <li class="number">We are enow yet living in the field</li>
  <li>To smother up the English in our throngs,</li>
  <li>If any order might be thought upon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BOURBON</li>
  <li>The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:</li>
  <li>Let life be short; else shame will be too long.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:</li>
  <li>But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour</li>
  <li class="number">I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;</li>
  <li>From helmet to the spur all blood he was.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,</li>
  <li>Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,</li>
  <li>Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,</li>
  <li class="number">The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.</li>
  <li>Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,</li>
  <li>Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,</li>
  <li>And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes</li>
  <li>That bloodily did spawn upon his face;</li>
  <li class="number">And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!</li>
  <li>My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;</li>
  <li>Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,</li>
  <li>As in this glorious and well-foughten field</li>
  <li>We kept together in our chivalry!'</li>
  <li class="number">Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:</li>
  <li>He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,</li>
  <li>And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,</li>
  <li>Commend my service to me sovereign.'</li>
  <li>So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck</li>
  <li class="number">He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;</li>
  <li>And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd</li>
  <li>A testament of noble-ending love.</li>
  <li>The pretty and sweet manner of it forced</li>
  <li>Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;</li>
  <li class="number">But I had not so much of man in me,</li>
  <li>And all my mother came into mine eyes</li>
  <li>And gave me up to tears.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I blame you not;</li>
  <li>For, hearing this, I must perforce compound</li>
  <li class="number">With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Alarum</li>
  <li>But, hark! what new alarum is this same?</li>
  <li>The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:</li>
  <li>Then every soldier kill his prisoners:</li>
  <li>Give the word through.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly</li>
  <li>against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of</li>
  <li>knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your</li>
  <li>conscience, now, is it not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the</li>
  <li>cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done</li>
  <li>this slaughter: besides, they have burned and</li>
  <li>carried away all that was in the king's tent;</li>
  <li>wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every</li>
  <li class="number">soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a</li>
  <li>gallant king!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What</li>
  <li>call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Alexander the Great.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the</li>
  <li>great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the</li>
  <li>magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase</li>
  <li>is a little variations.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his</li>
  <li class="number">father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I</li>
  <li>tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the</li>
  <li>'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons</li>
  <li>between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,</li>
  <li class="number">look you, is both alike. There is a river in</li>
  <li>Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at</li>
  <li>Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is</li>
  <li>out of my prains what is the name of the other</li>
  <li>river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is</li>
  <li class="number">to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you</li>
  <li>mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life</li>
  <li>is come after it indifferent well; for there is</li>
  <li>figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and</li>
  <li>you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his</li>
  <li class="number">wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his</li>
  <li>displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a</li>
  <li>little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and</li>
  <li>his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Our king is not like him in that: he never killed</li>
  <li class="number">any of his friends.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out</li>
  <li>of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak</li>
  <li>but in the figures and comparisons of it: as</li>
  <li>Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his</li>
  <li class="number">ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in</li>
  <li>his right wits and his good judgments, turned away</li>
  <li>the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he</li>
  <li>was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and</li>
  <li>mocks; I have forgot his name.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Sir John Falstaff.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Here comes his majesty.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK,
GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I was not angry since I came to France</li>
  <li>Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;</li>
  <li class="number">Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:</li>
  <li>If they will fight with us, bid them come down,</li>
  <li>Or void the field; they do offend our sight:</li>
  <li>If they'll do neither, we will come to them,</li>
  <li>And make them skirr away, as swift as stones</li>
  <li class="number">Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:</li>
  <li>Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,</li>
  <li>And not a man of them that we shall take</li>
  <li>Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter MONTJOY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GLOUCESTER</li>
  <li class="number">His eyes are humbler than they used to be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not</li>
  <li>That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?</li>
  <li>Comest thou again for ransom?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>No, great king:</li>
  <li class="number">I come to thee for charitable licence,</li>
  <li>That we may wander o'er this bloody field</li>
  <li>To look our dead, and then to bury them;</li>
  <li>To sort our nobles from our common men.</li>
  <li>For many of our princes — woe the while! — </li>
  <li class="number">Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;</li>
  <li>So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs</li>
  <li>In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds</li>
  <li>Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage</li>
  <li>Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,</li>
  <li class="number">Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,</li>
  <li>To view the field in safety and dispose</li>
  <li>Of their dead bodies!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I tell thee truly, herald,</li>
  <li>I know not if the day be ours or no;</li>
  <li class="number">For yet a many of your horsemen peer</li>
  <li>And gallop o'er the field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li>The day is yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!</li>
  <li>What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MONTJOY</li>
  <li class="number">They call it Agincourt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Then call we this the field of Agincourt,</li>
  <li>Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your</li>
  <li>majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack</li>
  <li class="number">Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,</li>
  <li>fought a most prave pattle here in France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>They did, Fluellen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is</li>
  <li>remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a</li>
  <li class="number">garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their</li>
  <li>Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this</li>
  <li>hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do</li>
  <li>believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek</li>
  <li>upon Saint Tavy's day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">I wear it for a memorable honour;</li>
  <li>For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's</li>
  <li>Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:</li>
  <li>God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases</li>
  <li class="number">his grace, and his majesty too!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Thanks, good my countryman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not</li>
  <li>who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I</li>
  <li>need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be</li>
  <li class="number">God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:</li>
  <li>Bring me just notice of the numbers dead</li>
  <li>On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Soldier, you must come to the king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that</li>
  <li>I should fight withal, if he be alive.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>An Englishman?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered</li>
  <li class="number">with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to</li>
  <li>challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box</li>
  <li>o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,</li>
  <li>which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear</li>
  <li>if alive, I will strike it out soundly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this</li>
  <li>soldier keep his oath?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your</li>
  <li>majesty, in my conscience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,</li>
  <li class="number">quite from the answer of his degree.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as</li>
  <li>Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look</li>
  <li>your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if</li>
  <li>he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as</li>
  <li class="number">arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black</li>
  <li>shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my</li>
  <li>conscience, la!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>So I will, my liege, as I live.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Who servest thou under?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Under Captain Gower, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and</li>
  <li>literatured in the wars.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Call him hither to me, soldier.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">I will, my liege.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and</li>
  <li>stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were</li>
  <li>down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:</li>
  <li>if any man challenge this, he is a friend to</li>
  <li class="number">Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou</li>
  <li>encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be</li>
  <li>desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain</li>
  <li>see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find</li>
  <li class="number">himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I</li>
  <li>would fain see it once, an please God of his grace</li>
  <li>that I might see.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Knowest thou Gower?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>He is my dear friend, an please you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I will fetch him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,</li>
  <li>Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:</li>
  <li>The glove which I have given him for a favour</li>
  <li class="number">May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;</li>
  <li>It is the soldier's; I by bargain should</li>
  <li>Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:</li>
  <li>If that the soldier strike him, as I judge</li>
  <li>By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,</li>
  <li class="number">Some sudden mischief may arise of it;</li>
  <li>For I do know Fluellen valiant</li>
  <li>And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,</li>
  <li>And quickly will return an injury:</li>
  <li>Follow and see there be no harm between them.</li>
  <li class="number">Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VIII.  Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>I warrant it is to knight you, captain.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLUELLEN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you</li>
  <li>now, come apace to the king: there is more good</li>
  <li>toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">Sir, know you this glove?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>I know this; and thus I challenge it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Strikes him</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the</li>
  <li>universal world, or in France, or in England!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">How now, sir! you villain!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Do you think I'll be forsworn?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his</li>
  <li>payment into ploughs, I warrant you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>I am no traitor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his</li>
  <li>majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the</li>
  <li>Duke Alencon's.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WARWICK</li>
  <li>How now, how now! what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>My Lord of Warwick, here is — praised be God for it!</li>
  <li class="number"> — a most contagious treason come to light, look</li>
  <li>you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is</li>
  <li>his majesty.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter KING HENRY and EXETER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>How now! what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,</li>
  <li class="number">look your grace, has struck the glove which your</li>
  <li>majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of</li>
  <li>it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to</li>
  <li>wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he</li>
  <li class="number">did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I</li>
  <li>have been as good as my word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's</li>
  <li>manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy</li>
  <li>knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me</li>
  <li class="number">testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that</li>
  <li>this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is</li>
  <li>give me; in your conscience, now?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the</li>
  <li>fellow of it.</li>
  <li class="number">'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;</li>
  <li>And thou hast given me most bitter terms.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,</li>
  <li>if there is any martial law in the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>How canst thou make me satisfaction?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never</li>
  <li>came any from mine that might offend your majesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>It was ourself thou didst abuse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li>Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to</li>
  <li>me but as a common man; witness the night, your</li>
  <li class="number">garments, your lowliness; and what your highness</li>
  <li>suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for</li>
  <li>your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I</li>
  <li>took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I</li>
  <li>beseech your highness, pardon me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,</li>
  <li>And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;</li>
  <li>And wear it for an honour in thy cap</li>
  <li>Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:</li>
  <li>And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle</li>
  <li>enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence</li>
  <li>for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you</li>
  <li>out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and</li>
  <li>dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAMS</li>
  <li class="number">I will none of your money.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will</li>
  <li>serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should</li>
  <li>you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis</li>
  <li>a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter an English Herald</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Now, herald, are the dead number'd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Herald</li>
  <li>Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;</li>
  <li>John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:</li>
  <li class="number">Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,</li>
  <li>Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>This note doth tell me of ten thousand French</li>
  <li>That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,</li>
  <li>And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead</li>
  <li class="number">One hundred twenty six: added to these,</li>
  <li>Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,</li>
  <li>Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,</li>
  <li>Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:</li>
  <li>So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,</li>
  <li class="number">There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;</li>
  <li>The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,</li>
  <li>And gentlemen of blood and quality.</li>
  <li>The names of those their nobles that lie dead:</li>
  <li>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;</li>
  <li class="number">Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;</li>
  <li>The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;</li>
  <li>Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,</li>
  <li>John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,</li>
  <li>The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,</li>
  <li class="number">And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,</li>
  <li>Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,</li>
  <li>Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.</li>
  <li>Here was a royal fellowship of death!</li>
  <li>Where is the number of our English dead?</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Herald shews him another paper</li>
  <li class="number">Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,</li>
  <li>Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:</li>
  <li>None else of name; and of all other men</li>
  <li>But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;</li>
  <li>And not to us, but to thy arm alone,</li>
  <li class="number">Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,</li>
  <li>But in plain shock and even play of battle,</li>
  <li>Was ever known so great and little loss</li>
  <li>On one part and on the other? Take it, God,</li>
  <li>For it is none but thine!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis wonderful!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Come, go we in procession to the village.</li>
  <li>And be it death proclaimed through our host</li>
  <li>To boast of this or take the praise from God</li>
  <li>Which is his only.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell</li>
  <li>how many is killed?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,</li>
  <li>That God fought for us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Do we all holy rites;</li>
  <li>Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'</li>
  <li>The dead with charity enclosed in clay:</li>
  <li>And then to Calais; and to England then:</li>
  <li>Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT V</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  France. The English camp.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?</li>
  <li>Saint Davy's day is past.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in</li>
  <li>all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,</li>
  <li class="number">Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,</li>
  <li>lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and</li>
  <li>yourself and all the world know to be no petter</li>
  <li>than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is</li>
  <li>come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,</li>
  <li class="number">look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place</li>
  <li>where I could not breed no contention with him; but</li>
  <li>I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see</li>
  <li>him once again, and then I will tell him a little</li>
  <li>piece of my desires.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PISTOL</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his</li>
  <li>turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you</li>
  <li>scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,</li>
  <li class="number">To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?</li>
  <li>Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my</li>
  <li>desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,</li>
  <li>look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not</li>
  <li class="number">love it, nor your affections and your appetites and</li>
  <li>your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would</li>
  <li>desire you to eat it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>There is one goat for you.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Strikes him</li>
  <li class="number">Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Base Trojan, thou shalt die.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:</li>
  <li>I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat</li>
  <li>your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Strikes him</li>
  <li class="number">You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will</li>
  <li>make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,</li>
  <li>fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li>Enough, captain: you have astonished him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or</li>
  <li class="number">I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it</li>
  <li>is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Must I bite?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question</li>
  <li>too, and ambiguities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat</li>
  <li>and eat, I swear — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to</li>
  <li>your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray</li>
  <li>you, throw none away; the skin is good for your</li>
  <li>broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks</li>
  <li>hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Good.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to</li>
  <li>heal your pate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Me a groat!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I</li>
  <li>have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li class="number">I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLUELLEN</li>
  <li>If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:</li>
  <li>you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but</li>
  <li>cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>All hell shall stir for this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GOWER</li>
  <li class="number">Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will</li>
  <li>you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an</li>
  <li>honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of</li>
  <li>predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds</li>
  <li>any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and</li>
  <li class="number">galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You</li>
  <li>thought, because he could not speak English in the</li>
  <li>native garb, he could not therefore handle an</li>
  <li>English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and</li>
  <li>henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good</li>
  <li class="number">English condition. Fare ye well.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PISTOL</li>
  <li>Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?</li>
  <li>News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital</li>
  <li>Of malady of France;</li>
  <li>And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.</li>
  <li class="number">Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs</li>
  <li>Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,</li>
  <li>And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.</li>
  <li>To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:</li>
  <li>And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,</li>
  <li class="number">And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  France. A royal palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,
GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;
at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the
PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies; the
DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!</li>
  <li>Unto our brother France, and to our sister,</li>
  <li>Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes</li>
  <li>To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;</li>
  <li class="number">And, as a branch and member of this royalty,</li>
  <li>By whom this great assembly is contrived,</li>
  <li>We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;</li>
  <li>And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>Right joyous are we to behold your face,</li>
  <li class="number">Most worthy brother England; fairly met:</li>
  <li>So are you, princes English, every one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">QUEEN ISABEL</li>
  <li>So happy be the issue, brother England,</li>
  <li>Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,</li>
  <li>As we are now glad to behold your eyes;</li>
  <li class="number">Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them</li>
  <li>Against the French, that met them in their bent,</li>
  <li>The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:</li>
  <li>The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,</li>
  <li>Have lost their quality, and that this day</li>
  <li class="number">Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>To cry amen to that, thus we appear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">QUEEN ISABEL</li>
  <li>You English princes all, I do salute you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>My duty to you both, on equal love,</li>
  <li>Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,</li>
  <li class="number">With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,</li>
  <li>To bring your most imperial majesties</li>
  <li>Unto this bar and royal interview,</li>
  <li>Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.</li>
  <li>Since then my office hath so far prevail'd</li>
  <li class="number">That, face to face and royal eye to eye,</li>
  <li>You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,</li>
  <li>If I demand, before this royal view,</li>
  <li>What rub or what impediment there is,</li>
  <li>Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,</li>
  <li class="number">Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,</li>
  <li>Should not in this best garden of the world</li>
  <li>Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?</li>
  <li>Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,</li>
  <li>And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,</li>
  <li class="number">Corrupting in its own fertility.</li>
  <li>Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,</li>
  <li>Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,</li>
  <li>Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,</li>
  <li>Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas</li>
  <li class="number">The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory</li>
  <li>Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts</li>
  <li>That should deracinate such savagery;</li>
  <li>The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth</li>
  <li>The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,</li>
  <li class="number">Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,</li>
  <li>Conceives by idleness and nothing teems</li>
  <li>But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,</li>
  <li>Losing both beauty and utility.</li>
  <li>And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,</li>
  <li class="number">Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,</li>
  <li>Even so our houses and ourselves and children</li>
  <li>Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,</li>
  <li>The sciences that should become our country;</li>
  <li>But grow like savages —  as soldiers will</li>
  <li class="number">That nothing do but meditate on blood —  </li>
  <li>To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire</li>
  <li>And every thing that seems unnatural.</li>
  <li>Which to reduce into our former favour</li>
  <li>You are assembled: and my speech entreats</li>
  <li class="number">That I may know the let, why gentle Peace</li>
  <li>Should not expel these inconveniences</li>
  <li>And bless us with her former qualities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,</li>
  <li>Whose want gives growth to the imperfections</li>
  <li class="number">Which you have cited, you must buy that peace</li>
  <li>With full accord to all our just demands;</li>
  <li>Whose tenors and particular effects</li>
  <li>You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>The king hath heard them; to the which as yet</li>
  <li class="number">There is no answer made.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Well then the peace,</li>
  <li>Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING OF FRANCE</li>
  <li>I have but with a cursorary eye</li>
  <li>O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace</li>
  <li class="number">To appoint some of your council presently</li>
  <li>To sit with us once more, with better heed</li>
  <li>To re-survey them, we will suddenly</li>
  <li>Pass our accept and peremptory answer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,</li>
  <li class="number">And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,</li>
  <li>Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;</li>
  <li>And take with you free power to ratify,</li>
  <li>Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best</li>
  <li>Shall see advantageable for our dignity,</li>
  <li class="number">Any thing in or out of our demands,</li>
  <li>And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,</li>
  <li>Go with the princes, or stay here with us?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">QUEEN ISABEL</li>
  <li>Our gracious brother, I will go with them:</li>
  <li>Haply a woman's voice may do some good,</li>
  <li class="number">When articles too nicely urged be stood on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:</li>
  <li>She is our capital demand, comprised</li>
  <li>Within the fore-rank of our articles.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">QUEEN ISABEL</li>
  <li>She hath good leave.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Fair Katharine, and most fair,</li>
  <li>Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms</li>
  <li>Such as will enter at a lady's ear</li>
  <li>And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with</li>
  <li>your French heart, I will be glad to hear you</li>
  <li>confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do</li>
  <li>you like me, Kate?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to</li>
  <li>affirm it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de</li>
  <li>tromperies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men</li>
  <li>are full of deceits?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of</li>
  <li class="number">deceits: dat is de princess.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,</li>
  <li>Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am</li>
  <li>glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if</li>
  <li>thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king</li>
  <li class="number">that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my</li>
  <li>crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but</li>
  <li>directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me</li>
  <li>farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out</li>
  <li>my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so</li>
  <li class="number">clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for</li>
  <li>your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I</li>
  <li>have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I</li>
  <li class="number">have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable</li>
  <li>measure in strength. If I could win a lady at</li>
  <li>leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my</li>
  <li>armour on my back, under the correction of bragging</li>
  <li>be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.</li>
  <li class="number">Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse</li>
  <li>for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and</li>
  <li>sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,</li>
  <li>Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my</li>
  <li>eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;</li>
  <li class="number">only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,</li>
  <li>nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a</li>
  <li>fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth</li>
  <li>sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love</li>
  <li>of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy</li>
  <li class="number">cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst</li>
  <li>love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee</li>
  <li>that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the</li>
  <li>Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou</li>
  <li>livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and</li>
  <li class="number">uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee</li>
  <li>right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other</li>
  <li>places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that</li>
  <li>can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do</li>
  <li>always reason themselves out again. What! a</li>
  <li class="number">speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A</li>
  <li>good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a</li>
  <li>black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow</li>
  <li>bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax</li>
  <li>hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the</li>
  <li class="number">moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it</li>
  <li>shines bright and never changes, but keeps his</li>
  <li>course truly. If thou would have such a one, take</li>
  <li>me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,</li>
  <li>take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?</li>
  <li class="number">speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of</li>
  <li>France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love</li>
  <li>the friend of France; for I love France so well that</li>
  <li class="number">I will not part with a village of it; I will have it</li>
  <li>all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am</li>
  <li>yours, then yours is France and you are mine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>I cannot tell vat is dat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am</li>
  <li class="number">sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married</li>
  <li>wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook</li>
  <li>off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand</li>
  <li>vous avez le possession de moi —  let me see, what</li>
  <li>then? Saint Denis be my speed! — donc votre est</li>
  <li class="number">France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,</li>
  <li>Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much</li>
  <li>more French: I shall never move thee in French,</li>
  <li>unless it be to laugh at me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il</li>
  <li class="number">est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my</li>
  <li>tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs</li>
  <li>be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou</li>
  <li>understand thus much English, canst thou love me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">I cannot tell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask</li>
  <li>them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,</li>
  <li>when you come into your closet, you'll question this</li>
  <li>gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to</li>
  <li class="number">her dispraise those parts in me that you love with</li>
  <li>your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the</li>
  <li>rather, gentle princess, because I love thee</li>
  <li>cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a</li>
  <li>saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get</li>
  <li class="number">thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs</li>
  <li>prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,</li>
  <li>between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a</li>
  <li>boy, half French, half English, that shall go to</li>
  <li>Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?</li>
  <li class="number">shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair</li>
  <li>flower-de-luce?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>I do not know dat</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do</li>
  <li>but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your</li>
  <li class="number">French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety</li>
  <li>take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer</li>
  <li>you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher</li>
  <li>et devin deesse?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de</li>
  <li class="number">most sage demoiselle dat is en France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in</li>
  <li>true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I</li>
  <li>dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to</li>
  <li>flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor</li>
  <li class="number">and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew</li>
  <li>my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars</li>
  <li>when he got me: therefore was I created with a</li>
  <li>stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when</li>
  <li>I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,</li>
  <li class="number">Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:</li>
  <li>my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of</li>
  <li>beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou</li>
  <li>hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou</li>
  <li>shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:</li>
  <li class="number">and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you</li>
  <li>have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the</li>
  <li>thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;</li>
  <li>take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am</li>
  <li>thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine</li>
  <li class="number">ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is</li>
  <li>thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry</li>
  <li>Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before</li>
  <li>his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,</li>
  <li>thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.</li>
  <li class="number">Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is</li>
  <li>music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of</li>
  <li>all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken</li>
  <li>English; wilt thou have me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please</li>
  <li>him, Kate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Den it sall also content me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li>Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je</li>
  <li class="number">ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en</li>
  <li>baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne</li>
  <li>serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon</li>
  <li>tres-puissant seigneur.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KATHARINE</li>
  <li class="number">Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant</li>
  <li>leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Madam my interpreter, what says she?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of</li>
  <li>France —  I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">To kiss.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss</li>
  <li>before they are married, would she say?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALICE</li>
  <li>Oui, vraiment.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear</li>
  <li>Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak</li>
  <li>list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of</li>
  <li>manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our</li>
  <li>places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will</li>
  <li class="number">do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your</li>
  <li>country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently</li>
  <li>and yielding.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Kissing her</li>
  <li>You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is</li>
  <li>more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the</li>
  <li class="number">tongues of the French council; and they should</li>
  <li>sooner persuade Harry of England than a general</li>
  <li>petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY,
and other Lords</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you</li>
  <li>our princess English?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how</li>
  <li>perfectly I love her; and that is good English.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>Is she not apt?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not</li>
  <li>smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the</li>
  <li class="number">heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up</li>
  <li>the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in</li>
  <li>his true likeness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you</li>
  <li>for that. If you would conjure in her, you must</li>
  <li class="number">make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true</li>
  <li>likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you</li>
  <li>blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the</li>
  <li>virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the</li>
  <li>appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing</li>
  <li class="number">self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid</li>
  <li>to consign to.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>They are then excused, my lord, when they see not</li>
  <li>what they do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li class="number">Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li>I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will</li>
  <li>teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well</li>
  <li>summered and warm kept, are like flies at</li>
  <li>Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their</li>
  <li class="number">eyes; and then they will endure handling, which</li>
  <li>before would not abide looking on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;</li>
  <li>and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the</li>
  <li>latter end and she must be blind too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BURGUNDY</li>
  <li class="number">As love is, my lord, before it loves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for</li>
  <li>my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city</li>
  <li>for one fair French maid that stands in my way.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRENCH KING</li>
  <li>Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities</li>
  <li class="number">turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with</li>
  <li>maiden walls that war hath never entered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Shall Kate be my wife?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRENCH KING</li>
  <li>So please you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may</li>
  <li class="number">wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for</li>
  <li>my wish shall show me the way to my will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRENCH KING</li>
  <li>We have consented to all terms of reason.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Is't so, my lords of England?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WESTMORELAND</li>
  <li>The king hath granted every article:</li>
  <li class="number">His daughter first, and then in sequel all,</li>
  <li>According to their firm proposed natures.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">EXETER</li>
  <li>Only he hath not yet subscribed this:</li>
  <li>Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,</li>
  <li>having any occasion to write for matter of grant,</li>
  <li class="number">shall name your highness in this form and with this</li>
  <li>addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi</li>
  <li>d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in</li>
  <li>Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex</li>
  <li>Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRENCH KING</li>
  <li class="number">Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,</li>
  <li>But your request shall make me let it pass.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,</li>
  <li>Let that one article rank with the rest;</li>
  <li>And thereupon give me your daughter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FRENCH KING</li>
  <li class="number">Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up</li>
  <li>Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms</li>
  <li>Of France and England, whose very shores look pale</li>
  <li>With envy of each other's happiness,</li>
  <li>May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction</li>
  <li class="number">Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord</li>
  <li>In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance</li>
  <li>His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALL</li>
  <li>Amen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,</li>
  <li class="number">That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">QUEEN ISABEL</li>
  <li>God, the best maker of all marriages,</li>
  <li>Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!</li>
  <li>As man and wife, being two, are one in love,</li>
  <li>So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,</li>
  <li class="number">That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,</li>
  <li>Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,</li>
  <li>Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,</li>
  <li>To make divorce of their incorporate league;</li>
  <li>That English may as French, French Englishmen,</li>
  <li class="number">Receive each other. God speak this Amen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ALL</li>
  <li>Amen!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">KING HENRY V</li>
  <li>Prepare we for our marriage — on which day,</li>
  <li>My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,</li>
  <li>And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.</li>
  <li class="number">Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;</li>
  <li>And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!</li>
</ol>

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